Having Meter Or Indicator Patents (Class 455/115.4)
  • Patent number: 9819615
    Abstract: In an apparatus of a communication network it is determined whether or not overload protection processing has been requested by a server, the overload protection processing being performed by dropping messages. In case it is determined that the overload protection processing has not been requested, a message to be sent from a client to the server is processed according to a security protocol. In case it is determined that the overload protection processing has been requested, the message is processed according to the security protocol by adopting the overload protection processing, and a predetermined indication is included in the message processed according to the security protocol by adopting the overload protection processing, in case the message is not dropped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventor: Ulrich Wiehe
  • Patent number: 9645232
    Abstract: An adaptive sensing system can comprise an optical or infrared camera to generate image information relating to a region of observation, a passive sensor to receive electromagnetic radiation, an active sensor to emit and receive electromagnetic radiation, an image processing unit configured to detect the presence of human beings and objects other than human beings in the region of observation based on the generated image information and a control unit. When presence of a human being is detected, the control unit controls the passive sensor so as to receive electromagnetic radiation from at least the region where the human being is detected, and when presence of an object other than a human being is detected, the control unit controls the active sensor so as to transmit and receive electromagnetic radiation to and from at least the region where the object is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shin Saito
  • Patent number: 9394582
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for producing pipes made of steel. According to the invention, within a period of time of no more than 20 seconds after the last deformation at a temperature greater than 700° C., but less than 1050° C., during passage a cooling medium is applied with elevated pressure onto the outside circumference of the pipe over a length of greater than 400 times the pipe wall thickness in a quantity which during rapid cooling provides an equivalent cooling speed of greater than 1° C./second of the pipe wall over the pipe length to a temperature in the range of 500° C. to 250° C., whereupon further cooling of the pipe down to room temperature is carried out by exposure to air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: VOESTALPINE TUBULARS GMBH & CO KG
    Inventor: Juergen Klarner
  • Patent number: 9307499
    Abstract: A user device transmits data at a first transmit power level. The user device detects a presence of a human body part within a predetermined distance from an antenna of the user device using one or more sensors disposed at a back side of the user device. In response to the detection of the presence of the human body part, the user device transmits information at a second transmit power level that is less than the first transmit power level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregg Zehr, Subram Narasimhan, Varadarajan Gopalakrishnan, David C. Buuck, John Depew, In Chul Hyun
  • Patent number: 9020443
    Abstract: A measure of signal strength is determined based on a signal received within a communication network. For example, a communication device, such as a mobile telephone, may determine the measure of signal strength within the communication network. A reception status is determined based on the measure of signal strength. A color of a skin of a communication device is caused to change from a first color to a second color, based on the reception status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Inventor: Jonathan A. Tyler
  • Patent number: 9008722
    Abstract: A non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code to cause a processor to receive a performance indicator associated with a first mode. The code causes the processor to calculate, using the performance indicator associated with the first mode, a first metric value associated with a first metric and an objective of the first mode. The code causes the processor to calculate, using the first metric value, a second metric value associated with a second metric and an objective of a second mode. The second metric value partially compensates for a change in a performance indicator associated with the second mode when the first metric value is implemented. The code causes the processor to send a signal associated with the first metric value and a signal associated with the second metric value to an antenna module such that the antenna module implements the first metric value and the second metric value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Reverb Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Osama Tarraf, Arif Ansari
  • Patent number: 8903002
    Abstract: A computational processor uses a binary signal, being a set of 1- or 0-valued elements of a same number as a number of elements in an input signal, to generate computational data whose elements are exclusive OR values between each element of the input signal and a corresponding element in the binary signal at a same position. The modulator 13 modulates the input signal and the computational data according to a primary modulation scheme, and generates primary-modulated signals. An IFFT calculator applies an inverse fast Fourier transformation to the primary-modulated signals to generate inverse transformation data. A transmitter generates a baseband signal based on generated inverse transformation data whose peak-to-average power ratio matches a standard, and generates and transmits a transmission signal from the baseband signal and data specifying computations conducted to generate the inverse transformation data that matches the standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Nobuyoshi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 8903364
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for processing and delivery of multimedia content by an integrated femtocell and set-top-box device are provided. In this regard, a cellular enabled communication device may communicate its capabilities, preferences, and/or settings to an integrated femtocell and set-top-box device, wherein the integrated femtocell and set-top-box device may processes multimedia content for the cellular enabled communication device based on the capabilities, preferences, and/or settings of the cellular enabled communication device. Additionally, the cellular enabled communication device may receive the processed multimedia content from the integrated femtocell and set-top-box device by the cellular enabled communication device. The capabilities, preferences, and/or settings may comprise multimedia processing capabilities, preferences, and/or settings, communication capabilities, preferences, and/or settings, and/or power conditions, preferences, and/or settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Abraham, Xuemin Sherman Chen, Wael William Diab, Vinko Erceg, Victor T. Hou, Jeyhan Karaoguz, Mark Kent
  • Patent number: 8880092
    Abstract: Multiple smart meters periodically measure strengths of detected signals generated by fixed position wireless devices. A centrally located location determining system receives this data, and correlates received strengths of the signals generated by the specific fixed position wireless devices with the physical locations of the measuring smart meters. Periodically, updated signal strengths are received, and stored correlations are replaced with updated correlations. Strengths of signals generated by fixed position wireless devices are received from a mobile computing device, as measured by the mobile device. The location determining system compares the signal strengths received from the mobile computing device to the most current strengths of signals of the same fixed position wireless devices, as measured by multiple smart meters, so as to perform triangulation and determine the physical location of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventor: Shaun P. Cooley
  • Patent number: 8880012
    Abstract: A method (700) and apparatus (600) optimize resource block based transmitter operation in a wireless communication device. The method can include receiving (720) a radio resource assignment including a particular resource block allocation. The method can include configuring (730) a wireless communication transceiver for the particular resource block allocation. The method can include degrading (740) power amplifier distortion of the wireless communication transceiver based on the particular resource block allocation. The power amplifier distortion can be a measure of a deviation of the power amplifier output in an analysis domain from an ideal linear amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Ryan J. Goedken, Armin W. Klomsdorf, Thomas D. Nagode, Dale G. Schwent
  • Patent number: 8861641
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a mixer that multiplies quadrature-modulated transmission data by a local oscillation frequency signal and outputs a high-frequency signal; a distributor that distributes the high-frequency signal; a detector circuit that detects a direct current component included in the high-frequency signal, based on the high-frequency signal distributed by the distributor; a correction signal generating unit that generates a correction signal for removing the direct current component from the high-frequency signal, based on the direct current component detected by the detector circuit; a correction unit that corrects the high-frequency signal by the correction signal generated by the correction signal generating unit; and a transmission unit that transmits the high-frequency signal that has been corrected by the correction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Oka, Takashi Okada
  • Patent number: 8862076
    Abstract: There is provided a method of method of estimating a quality of a signal, the method in a first device comprising measuring a signal transmitted from a second device to a third device; determining a value of a metric from an autocorrelation function of the measured signal; and determining an estimate of the quality of the signal from the determined metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Nicholas William Whinnett
  • Patent number: 8855182
    Abstract: In an emphasis optimization device, a calculating unit calculates an inverse characteristic of an amplitude characteristic based on the amplitude characteristic of a transmission path, and an inverse Fourier transform unit performs an inverse Fourier transform on the inverse characteristic to obtain an impulse response. An extracting unit extracts, from the obtained impulse response, an impulse response corresponding to the number of taps necessary for emphasis to be added to a digital signal to be transmitted on the transmission path. An emphasis amount calculating unit converts the extracted impulse response into a value of the emphasis to calculate an emphasis amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Murakami, Kosuke Sasaki, Ken Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 8824588
    Abstract: Systems, processes, and structures provide near-field transmit power measurement for MIMO wireless devices (DUT), such as for any of product development, product verification, and/or production testing. A test signal, such as comprising a pulse train signal, is provided to a MIMO device under test (DUT), wherein portions of the test signal controllably steered and sequentially transmitted from each of the device antennas, to one or more test antennas that are positioned in close proximity to the MIMO DUT. The near-field power of the received test signals is measured, to quickly and efficiently determine if one or more data streams of the MIMO DUT has a problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Netgear, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Amalan Arul Emmanuel, Jonathan M. Hummel
  • Patent number: 8798198
    Abstract: A calibration system may be provided for calibrating wireless communications circuitry in an electronic device during manufacturing. The calibration system may include data acquisition equipment for receiving an amplitude-modulated calibration signal from the electronic device. The calibration system may include calibration computing equipment for extracting pre-distortion coefficients from the amplitude-modulated calibration signal. The calibration computing equipment may be configured to detect a bulk phase drift in the amplitude-modulated calibration signal. The calibration computing equipment may be configured to remove the bulk phase drift from the amplitude-modulated calibration signal. The wireless communications circuitry may include a power amplifier that distorts a signal generated by the wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include a pre-distortion compensator for countering the distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Lang Do
  • Patent number: 8724501
    Abstract: To provide a mobile communication terminal test device and a mobile communication terminal test method capable of displaying the theoretical value of a packet transmission rate. A mobile communication terminal test device 1 includes a pseudo base station device 10 that is connected between a mobile communication terminal 5, which is a test target, and a virtual connection device 20, a table storage device 30 that stores various tables, a parameter input unit 50 that inputs information about TM, MCS, and NRB, a TBS acquiring unit 41 that acquires TBS on the basis of the input information and various tables stored in the table storage device 30, a packet transmission rate calculating unit 43 that calculates the theoretical value of the packet transmission rate from TBS, and a display unit 93 that displays the theoretical value of the packet transmission rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Junya Tanaka, Yasuyuki Matsuyama, Takuma Goto
  • Patent number: 8711760
    Abstract: A wireless communication device, a wireless communication system and a method to adjust transmitted signals constellation in a maximum likelihood multiple-input-multiple-output receiver by transmitting an EVM deviation value. The EVM deviation value may be added to a pre-stored error value at the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Assaf Kasher
  • Patent number: 8694006
    Abstract: A base station includes a first receiver that receives a signal from the base station, the signal indicating a first wireless quality that is a wireless quality of signals received by a mobile station which uses software-defined radio and communicates with the base station using a first communication protocol, and a processor that executes processing to download communication software that causes the mobile station to execute communication processing according to a second communication protocol based on a first condition of the first wireless quality, and executes processing to transmit a handover instruction signal to cause a handover of the mobile station to a second base station that communicates with the mobile station using the second communication protocol based on a second condition of the first wireless quality, wherein the first condition is a condition set to be satisfied before the second condition when the first wireless quality decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Noboru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8660600
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus and computer program products are provided to facilitate power control in wireless communication systems. A cell that is experiencing excessive interference conditions may generate an over-the-air overload indicator indicative of interference conditions at the cell. The over-the-air overload indicator is received by one or more user equipment in a neighboring cell. In response, the user equipment determines adjustments to its transmit power that reduce and/or eliminate the interference. This determination may be carried out by the user equipment, by the serving base station, or through cooperation between the user equipment and the serving base station. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules that allow a reader to quickly ascertain the disclosed subject matter. Therefore, it is to be understood that it should not be used to interpret or limit the scope or the meaning of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aamod D. Khandekar, Ravi Palanki, Mohammad J. Borran, Kapil Bhattad, Xiliang Luo
  • Patent number: 8611811
    Abstract: A method of performing ranging through a relay station (RS) and supporting thereof is disclosed. If ranging is performed in a system which performs communication between a mobile station and a base station through relay of a relay station, the ranging is performed under the leading of the relay station. In other words, if the relay station determines whether ranging between the mobile station and the relay station is required and also determines transmission parameter adjustment values and reports the determined result to the base station, the base station performs the ranging in such a manner that it prepares a message suitable for a specific format and forwards the message to the mobile station through the relay station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ae Ran Youn, Ki Seon Ryu, Du Hyun Mun, Beom Joon Kim
  • Patent number: 8600371
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining a health of radio-frequency transmitters each transmitting a transmitted signal during normal operation. The apparatus comprises a receiver for receiving received signals, each received signal responsive to a transmitted signal, a first element for determining signal parameters of each received signal, the signal parameters responsive to an operating condition of a transmitter, each transmitted signal and each associated received signal including an identifier of the transmitter that transmitted the transmitted signal, the apparatus using the identifier to link determined signal parameters with the transmitter that transmitted the transmitted signal and a second element for determining a health of the transmitter that transmitted the transmitted signal, the health responsive to a relationship between one or more signal parameters and a selected value or a range of selected values for each signal parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Locus Location Systems LLC
    Inventors: Danny Caudill, Michael Keefe, Charna Parkey, Robert Mitchell, Murad Qahwash, John McCarthy
  • Patent number: 8560963
    Abstract: A wireless communication device communicates with a data network in response to data access operations generated by a plurality of applications operating within the wireless communication device. The wireless communication device displays a plurality of framed icons based on icons individually associated with each of the applications and monitors the applications to determine a frequency and data throughput for the data access operations on a per-application basis. The wireless communication device processes the frequency to select numeric indicators on a per-application basis, processes the data throughput to select frame colors on a per-application basis, and directs the wireless communication device to display the framed icons with the selected frame colors and with bubbles having the numeric indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Jason N. Ward, Tuan Q. Tran, Raymond Emilio Reeves
  • Patent number: 8554157
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a communication unit for generating precoding feedback information in a multiple frequency radio transmission system are disclosed. A rank for precoding matrices, wherein the rank is constant over the multiple frequencies, is selected and a plurality of precoding matrices having the selected rank are selected. A different precoding matrix is selected for each frequency subset of the multiple frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Dietrich
  • Patent number: 8538417
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus for permitting diagnostic testing of a wireless device. The apparatus may include a first switch to route diagnostic information or acoustic information received from a processor of the device, a codec coupled to the first switch to code the routed diagnostic information or acoustic information, and a second switch coupled to the codec to route the coded diagnostic information to a first port of the wireless device and to route the coded acoustic information to the first port or a second port of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventor: David O. Anderton
  • Patent number: 8514914
    Abstract: An IQ imbalance correction method includes transmitting a plurality of pairs of RF training signals in installments by pairing RF training signals symmetric with respect to a center frequency on a frequency axis; setting a reception local frequency to change to a frequency that is suitable to receive, via an internal path, each of the plurality of pairs of RF training signals transmitted in installments, and suitable to convert the each of the plurality of pairs of RF training signals into IF training signals; and performing quadrature demodulation on the IF training signals, respectively, in a digital circuit area to generate BB training signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kaoru Yokoo, Kazuo Nagatani
  • Patent number: 8515416
    Abstract: In a radio device such as a receiver or transceiver, a test operation can be performed to determine performance. A received signal can be processed to obtain demodulated samples, which can be provided to a logic to perform a logic operation on the samples to generate a logic output. A storage such as a counter or other mechanism is coupled to the logic to store a count of a number of the logic outputs having an error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc
    Inventor: Hendricus De Ruijter
  • Patent number: 8503991
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to monitor mobile devices are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves operating first and second wireless telephone device terminals. In the example method, the first wireless telephone device terminal includes a first media decoder configured to decode a first media encoding format and the second wireless telephone device terminal includes a second media decoder configured to decode a second media encoding format. The example method also involves receiving a first media presentation via the first wireless telephone device terminal and a second media presentation via the second wireless telephone device terminal. The first media presentation is encoded using the first media encoding format and the second media presentation is encoded using the second media encoding format. The first and second media presentations include substantially similar media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Roderick D. Swift, Gregory R. Simon, Manjirnath Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 8457571
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling Transmit (Tx) power when a portable terminal performs human body communication with a counterpart portable device are provided. The apparatus includes a voltage manager for determining whether the Tx power needs to be changed based on an output voltage that is based on a current that varies according to a distance between an electrode of a portable terminal and an electrode of a counterpart portable terminal, and changes the Tx power according to a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung-Tae Kim, Seong-Jun Song
  • Patent number: 8433260
    Abstract: A base-station failure predictor comprises an interface to at least one sub-unit of a base-station of a mobile communications network, an alarm memory, and an alarm evaluator. The base-station failure predictor is adapted to receive a plurality of alarms from the at least one sub-unit of the base-station via the interface. The plurality of alarms are stored in the alarm memory, and the alarm evaluator is adapted to analyze the frequency of the plurality of alarms to assess a likelihood of failure of the at least one sub-unit concerned. A base-station failure prediction method is also proposed. Furthermore, a computer program product with instructions for the manufacture and a computer program product enabling a processor to carry out the base-station prediction method are also proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Ubidyne Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Kenington, Eric Westberg
  • Patent number: 8412109
    Abstract: The method relates to a method of characterizing a radio link. In the method, a radio frequency interrogator and a first radio frequency transponder, the response of which in an essentially anechoic chamber is known, are utilized. According to the invention, the response of the first radio frequency transponder is measured in a target environment in the chosen interrogator-transponder geometry and the responses of the radio frequency transponder in the target environment and in an essentially anechoic chamber are compared for characterizing the actual radio link. The invention provides information on multi-path propagation of radio waves characteristic to the target environment, which can be further taken into account in, for example, RFID system design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Voyantic Oy
    Inventors: Jukka Voutilainen, Juho Partanen, Jesse Tuominen
  • Patent number: 8396158
    Abstract: The invention is related to a data processing method comprising: selecting from at least one codebook a codebook and at least one weight in the codebook fulfilling a predetermined performance criterion, wherein one of the at least one codebook is of the form: [ ? 1 0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0 1 0.5 ? ? j ? ? 0 0.5 ? ? j ? ? 3 0.5 ? ? j ? 2 ? ? 3 ? ? ? ? 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 ? ? j ? ? ? 0.5 ? ? j ? 4 ? ? 3 0.5 ? ? j ? 5 ? ? 3 ] ; and informing the selected at least one codebook and weight to a transmitter for being used in transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Klaus Hugl, Olav Tirkkonen, Yong Teng
  • Patent number: 8385836
    Abstract: There is provided a method of method of estimating a quality of a signal, the method in a first device comprising measuring a signal transmitted from a second device to a third device; determining a value of a metric from an autocorrelation function of the measured signal; and determining an estimate of the quality of the signal from the determined metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Mindspeed Technologies U.K., Limited
    Inventor: Nicholas William Whinnett
  • Patent number: 8379746
    Abstract: Implementations of improved transmission of orthogonal space time codes are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Inventors: Yeheskel Bar-Ness, Amir Laufer
  • Patent number: 8374260
    Abstract: A method and a customer's wireless communication device are provided that perform uplink transmit diversity in a switched antenna OFDM communication system. A switching of antennas used by the customer's wireless communication device to transmit an uplink signal is restricted to switching time periods that comprise one or more of a transition gap immediately preceding a transmission of a channel quality-related uplink signal and a time period subsequent to the occurrence of the transition gap but prior to the transmission of the channel quality-related uplink signal, which channel quality-related uplink signal may be used by a serving radio access network to update a channel response and antenna array weights associated with the customer's wireless communication device. The customer's wireless communication device then switches antennas used for uplink transmissions only during the switching time periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Matthew S. Schirmacher, Frederick W. Vook, Wei Wu
  • Patent number: 8320852
    Abstract: A method is provided to transmit a signal by a transmitter in a communication system. The method includes predicting a receiver noise signal received from a receiver, and increasing an intelligibility of a transmitter signal using the receiver noise signal. The transmitter signal includes a transmitter noise signal and a transmitter speech signal. The transmitter cancels the transmitter noise signal from the transmitter signal and intensifies the transmitter speech signal in consideration of the receiver noise signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 8311495
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods and apparatus for detecting a phase angle between an incident signal and a reflected signal. The apparatus comprises a plurality of phase shifters and additional circuitry. The plurality of phase shifters is adapted to apply first phase shifts to a representation of the incident signal and to apply second phase shifts to a representation of the reflected signal. The additional circuitry, which is operatively coupled to the plurality of phase shifters, is adapted to produce a first indication of a location of a relative phase difference between the incident signal and the reflected signal within a first region of a first reference circle, and to produce a second indication of the location of the relative phase difference within a second region of a second reference circle, wherein the second reference circle is rotated with respect to the first reference circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: George B. Norris, Joseph Staudinger
  • Patent number: 8306526
    Abstract: In order to improve the reduction of interference among cells such as pico cells and ease operations of arranging and controlling the cells, a wireless communication area measuring apparatus includes: a signal measuring unit for calculating wireless environment indicators at measuring points based on measured data of received signal strength indicators of a plurality of base stations; a transmission power determination unit for adjusting transmission power of the base stations based on margins of the received signal strength indicators; and a display unit for outputting adjustment results of the transmission power of the base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventor: Kenya Yonezawa
  • Patent number: 8275321
    Abstract: An electrical circuit comprises a source of an interferer signal; at least one component configured for using the signal; at least two electrically parallel conductive paths by which the signal can pass between the source and each of the at least one components; and a signal path selector configured to selectively enable the signal to pass from the source to the component by any of the at least two conductive paths and to, when one of the paths is enabled to carry the signal, disable each of the other at least two paths from carrying the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited
    Inventors: Ian Sabberton, Paul Christopher Egan
  • Patent number: 8260285
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus for permitting diagnostic testing of a wireless device. The apparatus may include a first switch to route diagnostic information or acoustic information received from a processor of the device, a codec coupled to the first switch to code the routed diagnostic information or acoustic information, and a second switch coupled to the codec to route the coded diagnostic information to a first port of the wireless device and to route the coded acoustic information to the first port or a second port of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventor: David O. Anderton
  • Patent number: 8260219
    Abstract: A network communication device includes a processor, an amplifier circuit, a matching circuit including a transmitting route and a coupling route, a storage module, and a detection and control module. The network communication device generate electronic signals, and outputs the electronic signals to a load via the transmitting route after the electronic signals being amplified and matched. Then the network communication device detects output signals and reflection signals of the coupling route to calculate a safety parameter accordingly, compares the calculated safety parameter with one or more safety parameter thresholds, and generates control signals to control the amplifier circuit. The network communication device determines if the load is abnormal according to the control signals and generates load abnormal signals if the load is abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li-Bin Tseng, Dan-Dan Wu
  • Publication number: 20120214430
    Abstract: A self-evaluating process control transmitter system includes a transmitter configured to capture output data from an integral sensor, and a transmitter memory integrally disposed with the transmitter. The transmitter memory is configured to store a plurality of sets of the output data thereon, including an initial as-built data set, and at least one subsequent data set. A self evaluation module integrally disposed with the transmitter, in communication with the transmitter memory is configured to identify one or more variations between the as-built data set and at least one subsequent data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Invensys Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: John L. Koukol, JR.
  • Patent number: 8233849
    Abstract: A radio frequency transmitter includes a baseband transmit processing module, a mixing module, a power amplifier, a transmit power sense module, and a transmit power control module. The baseband transmit processing module is operably coupled to encode outbound data into outbound baseband signals in accordance with one of a plurality of encoding protocols. The mixing module is operably coupled to convert the outbound baseband signals into outbound radio frequency signals. The power amplifier is operably coupled to amplify the outbound RF signals prior to transmission to produce amplified outbound RF signals. The transmit power sense module is operably coupled to sense the amplified outbound RF signals to provide a transmit signal strength indication (TSSI). The transmit power control module is operably coupled to adjust gain of the baseband transmit processing module, the mixing module, and/or the power amplifier based on the TSSI and the particular encoding protocol used to produce the baseband signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jason A. Trachewsky, Tim Robinson, George Kondylis, Ling Su
  • Patent number: 8170509
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods and apparatus for detecting a phase angle between an incident signal and a reflected signal. The apparatus comprises a plurality of phase shifters and additional circuitry. The plurality of phase shifters is adapted to apply first phase shifts to a representation of the incident signal and to apply second phase shifts to a representation of the reflected signal. The additional circuitry, which is operatively coupled to the plurality of phase shifters, is adapted to produce a first indication of a location of a relative phase difference between the incident signal and the reflected signal within a first region of a first reference circle, and to produce a second indication of the location of the relative phase difference within a second region of a second reference circle, wherein the second reference circle is rotated with respect to the first reference circle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: George B. Norris, Joseph Staudinger
  • Patent number: 8135055
    Abstract: I/Q gain and phase mismatches of both transmit and receive paths of an OFDM FDD transceiver are simultaneously estimated. An up-converted RF signal is generated when the transmit path performs IQ modulation on a reference signal having a single sideband tone. The up-converted RF signal is sent via a loop-back path to the receive path. A down-converted evaluation signal is generated when the receive path performs IQ demodulation on the up-converted RF signal. The single evaluation signal is used to determine the transmit path gain and phase mismatches and the receive path gain and phase mismatches. The four I/Q mismatches are estimated without using significant hardware nut otherwise used in the regular transmission of data signals. The I/Q mismatches in data signals are corrected by pre-processing the up-converted RF signals and post-processing the down-converted RF signals by adding attenuated components of the in-phase and quadrature-phase signals to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventor: Michael Kohlmann
  • Patent number: 8126394
    Abstract: A technique applicable to a telecommunications system is disclosed that provides quality-related information in a receive path, in which the information serves as feedback about the call quality that is present in the corresponding transmit path. It is recognized that when a first party on a call hears degradation, he tends to change the way that he speaks or reacts to a second party. Based upon this recognition, the present invention addresses the problem of one-way degradation by providing a feedback signal to the first party, in the form of intentional degradation of the voice signals that he is receiving from the second party. The degradation that is introduced by the disclosed data-processing system is based on the current quality of the voice path from the first party to the second party (i.e., the transmit path), instead of the other way around (i.e., the receive path).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Avaya Inc.
    Inventor: Eric John Diethorn
  • Patent number: 8126499
    Abstract: Systems, methodologies, and devices are described that employ indicators related to a parameter value(s) associated with a neighbor cell to facilitate communication by a mobile device in a network. The mobile device optionally can read a parameter value associated with a detected neighbor cell, and can provide, to the serving base station, signal strength information and indicator information that indicates whether, the mobile device read the parameter value. The serving base station can select a cell to which the mobile device is to be communicatively connected based in part on evaluating the received information. If a parameter value is not read by the mobile device, the serving base station can request the parameter value from a neighbor cell. The neighbor cell can provide a one-to-one indicator to indicate when a specified parameter value is to be applied with regard to a particular base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventor: Nathan Edward Tenny
  • Patent number: 8121646
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and system for equalizing the signal losses over cable runs in a Distributed Antenna System (DAS). In a DAS, two or more antennae are connected to the system by cable runs that can vary widely in length. As a result, the signal loss over a given cable run can also vary widely which can impact the design and deployment of the DAS and reduce antenna spacing. In addition, for a broadband DAS that supports many frequency bands or ranges using a common antenna unit, the signal losses vary with respect to frequency further making it difficult to equalize the cable losses. According to one embodiment of the invention, the method and system provide for measuring and adjusting the signal losses of each cable run to be a predefined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Corning MobileAccess Ltd
    Inventors: Yair Oren, Igor Berlin, Ofer Saban
  • Patent number: 8121553
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for determining a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) using a beamforming in a multi-antenna system are provided. A transmitter for determining a CQI based at least partly upon the beamforming in the multi-antenna system includes a beam former for distinguishing frequency tone intervals having a constant channel across an entire frequency tone, forming a beam by multiplying frequency tones of the frequency tone interval having the constant channel by different beamforming weights, and transmitting a preamble signal. Hence, the users can be scheduled based at least partly upon the beamforming gain, and throughput can be enhanced through the practical MCS selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-Chul Yoon, Yun-Seok Choi
  • Publication number: 20120021708
    Abstract: A communication device is presented that has different processors and a power amplifier. One of the processors receives a signal from a monitor and indicates that an alarm exists to a diagnostics module. The other processor uses the envelope signal of the input signal to be amplified and either the signal from the diagnostics module, the monitor or the power amplifier to adjust modulation of the power supply of the power amplifier dependent on the type of alarm. The power supply voltage or headroom is maximized or frozen at the value of the last detection cycle if a fault or impairment, respectively, of the power amplifier is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC.
    Inventor: RIZWAN MURJI
  • Patent number: RE44415
    Abstract: A wireless communication medium includes an antenna, an analog signal processor, a digital signal processor, and a central processing unit & logic module. The antenna transmits and receives a signal to and from an external apparatus. The analog signal processor converts an analog signal to a digital signal, and converts a digital signal to an analog signal. The digital signal processor demodulates the digital signal, detects the start and end of data, and generates a first control signal for determining whether data is transmitted to the external apparatus and a second control signal for perceiving the end of data, blocking the reception of data, modulating data, and determining whether modulated data is transmitted to the external apparatus. The central processing unit & logic module processes data received from and transmitted to the external apparatus. Accordingly, an efficiency of processing a RF signal can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Ji Man Park, Yong-sung Jeon, Hong-il Ju, Young-soo Park, Sung-ik Jun, Kyo-il Chung